As for me, I’m still mucking about with City Skylines and think the second city I tried is even worse than my first! I tried using more main roads through the city and creating smaller suburbs but it’s turning into a mess. I don’t know whether to try again or come back to it at some other point.
The other issue I’m having is that it seems to be one of a handful of games that really irritates my eyes. They get quite red when I’ve played it for any amount of time. It’s a little weird that only a few games seem to do this to me.
@Thrillho Do you wear glasses? A trip to the opticians might be needed as it sounds like your eyes are straining. If you get headaches too that would be my first port of call.
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@RogerRoger Fair enough. I remember the fight but it’s so long since I played the original now. That move is even more annoying in the remake!
And I am enjoy Skylines. Like a lot of these games though, it’s learning by your mistakes but then it’s the question of whether you want to start again or try to work with what you’ve got. The hard thing for me with these games is thinking ahead about incorporating stuff you’re going to unlock. For instance, planning districts around where your future metro line will be once you unlock it.
If anything, it’s making me look at town planning even more! What other people have achieved, especially on PC with mods, is pretty amazing. I struggle to figure out how to make a get highway junction that works and doesn’t look like an utter mess (it’s more fun than it sounds, honest).
@JohnnyShoulder No headaches. It’s only a handful of games that make this happen. I can play plenty of games for hours without problems but a small handful seem to make it happen. I don’t know if it’s the concentration, lighting, or colour scheme. I haven’t had any problems with other games recently.
@Thrillho I got really awful headaches with Control, no game’s made me feel physically sick before that one. It might be the motion blur, the camera movement or a mixture of the two.
So as part of my gaming goal to expand my horizons, I jumped into NBA2K20 yesterday. Having it free on PS Plus made this a low risk proposition. And I could summarize my opinion so far by just saying that I’m glad I didn’t actually spend money on this game.
To be fair, I’ve only spent a few hours with it and most games are frustrating and overwhelming in the opening hours. But my criticisms of the game so far aren’t just limited to the difficulty of the game or the steep learning curve. Sure, I’m pretty bad at the game and I am more of a brick-layer than a shot-maker; and more of a hacker than a defender; but I expect that it won’t take long until I get the timing down to make shots and play reasonable defense.
My biggest disappointment is in the graphical quality of the players and animations. This being the premiere basketball game out there, I was expecting more photo-realistic quality of my favorite players and also more options for the character creation so I could make a character that looked more like me. After playing games over the last few years like Dragon Age Inquisition and SoulCalibur 6 that have rather robust character creators, I was expecting more from a late generation huge money making franchise like NBA2K. I mean, at least let me change my hairstyle, 2K. But then again — the hair in the game looks so bad to begin with, I suppose it hardly matters. In the games defense, they do include some kind of option to upload a photo of your face, but I’m not fussed enough to go through that much effort.
Other disappointments so far include the apparent lack of updating. When I browsed around looking for anything relating to the Orlando “bubble tournament” that has just started up this week as a return from the unscheduled COVID hiatus, I could find nothing of the sort. In the one area that supposedly has the “play the games currently on schedule” it has a list of games from March 10th, which I think must have been around when the league went on hold. It’s such a missed opportunity to have a really fun update to include the play-in games and subsequent playoffs that are going to be going on over the next month. I mean, as much money as this game has made 2K Sports you’d think they could keep the game up-to-date for the playoffs. It comes off as just lazy. I hate to be judgmental as I know they may have lost programming staff over the pandemic, but they have sure had plenty of time and staff to update the splash screens hounding me to pre-order NBA2K21. I mean, good grief 2K, the 2020 playoffs haven’t even started yet — can we please not start selling next years game until we at least have the playoff tournament underway for the current year?! It’s probably the most disappointing aspect of this game to me so far. And perhaps they will issue an update with some “bubble play” in Orlando, and if so I’ll retract my criticism, but for now it is definitely a major let down.
For some positives — the game does appear to have a lot of game modes, with a variety of content . It seems to include legends and current day players, which is nice.
All in all, Unfortunately my experience so far is only reenforcing the prejudice I have harbored against these annualized games. Here’s hoping that my first impressions are unfounded. I plan to give it a fair shake and play through more of the different modes over the next month. Although, if there isn’t any updates to the rosters and schedule based on the real world happenings, then I guess it’s no rush.
Ghost Of Tsushima, I've posted about it in the official thread, but I'll say a word or two more here. I like Jin's character and adherence to the samurai code - although apparently he becomes less strict about that later on. The prologue was a great introduction to the game and I've just begun The Warrior Code quest so far. the combat in the game is great, and much easier than Sekiro, which is good for me.
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@Th3solution The Show 20’s done great providing content so it’s a shame to see NBA hasn’t bothered. They’ve only just managed to implement the roster updates and attribute changes but I’ve still sunk over 6 days of playtime with all the content they’ve given us in the meantime. And I haven’t spent a penny on MTX, at the end of the day it’s just spending money to skip the grind when the grind is where the fun is!
@RogerRoger Yes, I think I see the place where the microtransactions fit in. I’ve not spent enough time to completely understand the mechanics, but one of the modes lets you choose a ‘“legendary” type of player and you get a card packet (not sure if they call them “cards”, I can’t remember) and in that pack you have a bunch of random low tier players, like people coming off the bench of mediocre teams, guys I’d never heard of. And your supposed to put together a team with these guys and gradually accumulate reward packs where they trickle in good players over time into your team. Well... I think can buy packets with real money and expedite getting better players. Basically I think it looks like loot boxes. Now don’t quote me on that, but I think that’s the way that one mode works. Sort of a level up RPG for a team, making it better over time but the ability to buy your way to the top.
I read up on the platinum trophy and apparently without spending real world money the platinum takes forever. PlayStationtrophies.org rated the plat difficulty at 10/10.... which is way harder than say for comparison - Dark Souls, which is 7.5/10 difficulty. However, if you buy card pack upgrades then you can make the grinding for the platinum much faster.
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@RogerRoger No worries. I’m a little frustrated at the whole experience and it’s good to have validation. But like that recent article on the site reported, there is so much money involved with MTX for both publishers and for Sony by virtue of them getting their PSN share of the exchange that it’s just going to continue to be present, despite the hardcore gamers like ourselves being opposed to them. And to be fair, NBA2K has plenty to offer as far as potential enjoyment without engaging in MTX. But it’s clear that a lot of players do utilize the loot boxey card packets that these games employ.
Fortunately there are plenty of games that don’t use them or at least only use them for cosmetic purposes and so we, the players, have lots of options. It’s just frustrating to see games that utilize these methods continue to populate the best sellers lists month after month when some really creative and well crafted games go unnoticed and sell poorly.
As you say though, I’ll be happy to continue to try to get some enjoyment out of NBA2K20. Its a nice “drop-in, drop-out” kind of game to dabble in. I’ll post more thoughts once I get better acquainted.
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I am also playing Conan Exiles, loving the building aspect of the game which i have only just started to indulge myself in, also the combat (on Admin Modde) is easy and fun. I have access to God Mode which, I know, many would argue takes the fun out of the game, but I rarely use cheats and the devs included this particular option in the design of the game, so it makes it more fun to exploit the game this way and just have unlimited resources and health, I am not hardcore enough, despite my Dark Souls background, to begin from the ground up, foraging in the wastelands etc., and getting killed over...and over again.
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I played the first couple of hours of Strider 2014, which probably means I’m more than halfway through it. I’m actually really enjoying it, maybe a little safe but it’s just proper good, clean, retro fun. It feels quite a bit like Mega Man 11 in that sense and like most of the Capcom reboots, it does enough new to feel fresh but you can fall right back into the gameplay and instantly know what you’re doing, like muscle memory.
I'm really, really glad that I want to experience this legendary game so badly because, if I didn't, I think I'd be regretting my purchase by now
... Oh dear... Not off to the best of starts Rog is it?
Have you got any further into this since your initial post?
Most of the finer details are admittedly lost on me since my first go of it six/seven or so years ago but I do seem to recall most of what you've said so far and a number of your complaints are similar to ones I have.
The dodgy character models in the overworld (I dunno why but they really get under my skin with how bad they look and I'm really not a graphics snob), the characters themselves being fairly uninteresting, the translation being... not all that good either (Least it was for me with the PS1 original on PS3)
I thought the music was only ok as well baring a few standout tracks.
& I never found the materia system to be all that exciting as it basically makes all the characters a jack of all trades from what I remember (Yet I really quite like Trails Of Cold Steel's quartz system which is quite familar... Maybe I've got a bit of a bias towards FFVII 😅)
... Let's hope it picks up for you though, you do come back and eat those words & end up loving it like everyone else 😁
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@nessisonett Have you had any experience playing Demon's Tilt, then? Sounds like you would like that one, as well.
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@Draco_V_Ecliptic I’ll be honest, I played it on Game Pass for 30 minutes and got bored. It’s pinball alright, but with just the one table and not enough new to make it interesting. I prefer the Zen games and all their licensed tables.
In the exciting world of Cities Skylines, I finally have a city I’m reasonably happy with thanks to roundabouts.
I’ve also found that the game LOVES putting traffic lights on any sort of junction which massively affects traffic, and I’ve found the convoluted way that allows you to change this. Moving all of my industry to one area has also made a huge difference but I can’t build residential blocks quick enough at the moment.
I am sure you are all thrilled to hear about my ongoing battle with simulation traffic management.
Started The Outer Worlds the other night. Seems to be very much my thing so far, early days though.
The dialogue options are a particular highlight. Some of the replies you can give to people are hilarious. Also, Parvarti is my favourite sidekick since Charon.
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
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